Al-Wasl volleyball player Mona Haidar revealed her ambition and her team to win the third star in a row in the Arab Women's Clubs Games, when her colleagues currently defend the 2016 and 2018 titles with the ambition of the “hat-trick” in the competition held within the fifth edition of the tournament organized by the Foundation Sharjah Women’s Sports until February 12, and competes in the titles of its nine Olympic competitions, including the plane, 78 clubs representing 18 Arab countries.
Haider told «Emirates Today», “The aspirations are great in continuing the glow of Al Wasl plane and preserving the title, after having succeeded with colleagues and with the emperor’s slogan in winning the title in the 2016 and 2018 versions,” noting that the task is difficult in light of the challenges imposed by the competition force witnessed in the edition The current, especially from the Arab clubs, are leaders from the African continent.
She explained: “With the convergence of levels and the increase in the intensity of competition, I and my female colleagues in Al Wasl have to do more and provide the best performance that guarantees us adding a new title in a course in which I register my fourth participation in a row, and witnesses much higher levels than we have seen in previous times, especially clubs. Arab Egyptian, Algerian, and Tunisian, which usually compete strongly in continental competitions.
Haidar indicated that volleyball was not one of her favorite games, and she said: “I come from a sports family, because I and four of my brothers practiced various sports activities. My beginnings came with basketball under the encouragement of my brothers, before you led me by chance and in light of the desire to continue In playing sports to enter the world of volleyball with Al Wasl in 2002, and since that date I have defended the colors of the club and achieved many accomplishments with him, besides participating with the national team, which previously culminated in him with collective and individual titles, among the most close to my heart the title of best player Axis and line of defense in the Gulf Championship 2010, in Janjan B title the best player in the 2015 Gulf Games for Women ».
She continued: «The expansion of the games circle in the Sharjah tournament and its arrival to the number 9 in the current version, is by all accounts an important technical gain, not only in terms of volleyball, but also in the extent of the benefit that Arab players can reap in these competitions, whether in providing friction factor or In terms of raising the level of competitions, and bridging the gap that separates them from continental and international competitions.
She continued: "The sport of Arab women goes in the right way when every athlete succeeds in providing positive results in such courses at the club level, which will surely be reflected positively on the course of the Arab national teams."
Regarding the difficulties she faced in her career, she said: “My long 18-year career in volleyball would not have continued without the care and attention of Sheikha Shamsa bint Hasher Al Maktoum, member of the Board of Directors of the Volleyball Federation and chair of the National Teams Committee, which provided a lot of Emirati volleyball And connectivity, especially in the ability to overcome challenges and difficulties facing female players, and the most prominent of these difficulties is the coordination between working life, career swirls and periods of training ».
Yesterday, volleyball competitions recorded Al-Wasl's victory over the Syrian team Taldara 3-1, by "25-14, 26-24, 19-25, 24-14".
Bronze for the Emirates in shooting the gun
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The Bahraini archery continued its dominance of the archery competitions in the tournament, after the Bahraini women succeeded in grabbing the gold medal of this competition, by obtaining a total of 1849 points, outperforming 27.9 points from the archers of the Sultanate of Oman who scored 1821.1 points, and they finished second.
My husband went to the table to sleep in Algeria
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